This site is devoted to the history, culture, and attractions of Mesoamerica, and in particular to the world of the Maya, both ancient and contemporary. Oriented to the enthusiast and the traveler, it combines practical information with cultural materials that amplify that information and breathe life into it.

Mirrors symbolize reality, the sun, the earth, and its four corners, its surface, its depth, and all of its peoples. Buried in caches throughout the Americas, they also cling to the bodies of the humblest celebrators in the Peruvian highlands or in the Mexican Indian carnivals. ... Are they not right? Is not the mirror both a reflection of reality and a project of the imagination?
— Carlos Fuentes, The Buried Mirror